Word: spoor
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...platyops not only had a much flatter face than Lucy, she also had smaller teeth. From the teeth, the scientists conclude that it probably ate fruits, berries and small insects while A. afarensis consumed tougher vegetation like roots and grasses. "They were unlikely to compete," says team member Fred Spoor of University College London. "Two species usually don't occupy the same ecological niche...
...that at its lower edge the waterfall is cut off mid-drop. Lemieux wittily extends into the museum with a rectangle of blue plush carpet that begins on the ground where the canvas leaves off, its velvety nap now pulled in various directions and covered with the incidental spoor of footprints. The piece is a good-humored transgression of the viewer's space, and a clever juxtaposition of mass-produced objects...